Thomas Kelly

               Thomas Kelly writes much about an unceasing, inward orientation of the soul.  He believes that such a turning of our souls to the Lord is important because it brings everything in the world into a new light – the Light – and gives a new perspective.  It allows us to “rejudge,”  “recreate,” and respond in “spontaneous, incisive, and simple ways of love and faith.”
              Kelly’s approach is all about inward worship – “quiet, persistent practice in turning all of our being, day and night, in prayer and inward worship and surrender, toward him who calls in the deeps of our souls.”  This will require the development of certain habits.
              “In the early weeks we begin with simple, whispered words…repeat them inwardly, over and over again…longer discipline in this inward prayer will establish more enduring upreachings of praise and submission and relaxed listening in the depths…” 
                And if we lapse, simply breathe a prayer for forgiveness and start again right from where you are; ever return quietly.  As this discipline of inward orientation improves, there develops a meshing and a simultaneity of the outer things and the Inner Light – not just an alternation…”worship undergirding every moment, living prayer, the continuous current and background of all moments of life.” 
              It fuses the inner with the outer, internal spirituality with external application.  It transforms us from the inside out, that all may see him and receive a glimpse of true life and be drawn to it.